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Thursday, May 29, 2014

New Fox hire....DIVERSITY??

Fox News Hires ‘Clueless’ Actress Stacey Dash

It's official: Fox News Channel is diversifying its ranks.(Z: "diversifying its ranks HOW?" Because she's Black..? I just checked and she's "Barbadian, African American and Mexican"...whatever the mix, she's gorgeous! But, what does this writer mean when he emphasizes 'diversity'?? It can't be race... please see my comments below. )

The network has added “Clueless” alum Stacey Dash to its roster, making the actress/activist a contributor, Fox News’ executive vice president of programming Bill Shine said Wednesday.

Dash, an outspoken conservative who's voiced her political views on her Twitter account (including a scathing condemnation of Jay Z and Beyonce for their Cuba visit last year) — will offer cultural analysis and commentary across various daytime and primetime programs.

Some comments on Twitter, however, have been less laudatory since the hiring was announced. (Z: this is the Left, isn't it. They just can't ABIDE by another point of view!):

“WOW! I used to like you so much. You have proven yourself mentally ill, especially now by joining FAUX News. Pathetic bigot,” one user tweeted at Dash.

Said another, “WOW. Turncoat ass bitch" (End of article)

Z: So, you think the title from Yahoo is coincidence? The "CLUELESS" Stacey Dash hired by FOX? And, by the way, what does it mean, 'diversifying'? How? Is she black? She's a lovely girl but I can't tell from the picture. And, isn't it odd they mentioned diversifying when they have Harris Faulkner, Juan Williams, Kelly Wright, Arthel Neville and a couple of others....more than many other channels. What's the diversity Yahoo's talking about!?

This Stacey Dash sounds great to me. (P.S., I had a heck of a time finding an image with her clothes on, and she's led quite a 'busy' life :-) I like her breaking the silly generalizations Leftwingers have about people with Conservative ideals!) Go, Stacey! (Guys...have fun Googling "images!" :-)

Black and Mexican? Hummm, that reminds me...why the hell isn't Obama forcing Mexico to let our marine go free?There is no God damn excuse for him to STILL be sitting in a Mexican jail after all this time.Should I just assume that our government who by the way is another way of saying “Our President’ just doesn't care about our soldiers after they've been used for their service? Where is this god damn clout Obama bragged about having with the rest of the world? If it were Muslims, he’d be all over it.

60 days in a shit hole because he missed a lousy freeken exit ramp?

Where is the god damn the FIRST LADY holding up HASHTAG signs from for this? Oh, I forget it’s not a Muzzie. Maybe it’s because America's Apologist-in-Chief respects the laws of other countries, except when it’s with government overthrows in Tunisia Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and other anti-American Arad nations. I can remember our First Black President Barack Obama profusely apologizing to the entire Muslim world for the “accidental” burning of a Koran by US military personnel, but not when it comes to Freeing an American. Isn’t that funny! NO, it’s not. This president seems to know how to force or persuade Arad nations ALL THE TIME. Why is one of our own Marines not worthy of this? You know damn well he wasn't gun running or any other bullshit like his cronies have done in the past.

Even the First Moocher gets involved with all kinds of other crap, and she can HASHTAG the hell out of an issue that is for the most part irrelevant to Americans but god forbid we go to bat for one of our own service men!. Neither one of the Obama’s hasn't even tried. And I find that to be an absolute disgrace!So Ms. Moochie, Hashtag me over some excuses would your please!

Obama has now apologized twice to the Muslim world for things he didn’t need to really apologize for. But when it comes to what his administration is responsible for, like the release of that American marine jailed in Mexico, or Operation Fast and Furious that was directly responsible for the murdering of over 300 Mexican civilians and police. This fiasco was initiated by the US Department of Justice. Or ALL those other scandals that have been hitting the headlines almost daily. Where is his apology to the American people for allowing tens of thousands of Mexicans into our country and ruining our economy? Obama did offer ahald hearted apology to the family of slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, but it wasn’t nearly as emphatic or heartfelt as his apology to the Muslim world was he?NO one can do any wrong if the are a Muslim. But except the American people as far as he is concerned.And what about the so called "workplace violence" at Ft Hood, Texas when Army Major Hasan, a Muslim, opened fire on his fellow soldiers killing 12 and wounding 31 others. I didn’t hear President Obama apologize to the families of the victims or to the US Army or to America like he’s done in Afghanistan and the Muslims.Stand and fight as your fathers did, as your fathers, father did, as our forefathers did, as our founders did. When will Obama will be held accountable for all these things he has done or his administration has done for him? And the sad part is that I can't believe that all these liberal idiots in this country still support him!!

Ed, not sure what you mean by 'cross show appearances"I know neither has anything close to the amount of two-sided conversations....FOX's almost all have both sides represented. They have an enormous list of contributors including many liberals like Alan Colmes, Bob Bickel (who's also a host) and Kirsten Powers, etc etc.

Steve: It's inexplicable and they say that poor guy's wait should be over soon.It's astonishing that the president's not got him out yet....I guess we just can't push around a big powerful country like MX, huh? :-)

Sue, I guess so!The FOX journalists are SO beautiful that this will only add to REALLY beautiful, REALLY intelligent folks there.

CI...Of course not. If Americans didn't see and digest those titles, what would I care? :-)We must never write off this type of thing...it's subtle and insidious and very powerful...drip, drip, drip....it's always there.

Can I ask again what DIVERSITY meant? Is it just that the author thought FOX is a bunch of white guys? Never has been, never will be..This struck me as very curious.

Ed - "Do they have the cross show appearances by various personalities in their stable the way Fox does?"

I've seen a bit, not sure if it's more or less than Fox. Z is correct, Fox does corner the market of presenting the talking points of both major parties. They also have a unique role in their hiring of politicians...something else that blurs the lines between the media and political theater.

Yes, the article talks about a kind of different slant in hiring her and that she's outspoken. I'm withholding much enthusiasm until I see her on the show.If she's got strong principles and isn't afraid to discuss them, in the leftwing world where she could stop being hired (see the public's comments at the end of that piece...think they're unusual? not), then I'm all for her.\But, wait for it: Because she's got almost ALL semi-nude shots on IMAGES, the leftwingers who admire Cyrus and nudity, and everything immoral, will slam her for that. Wait for it. Ipromise.

Kelly, McCallum, Faulkner....all are gorgeous AND smart. And they do their own journalism, which fascinates me.There's a young woman who covers late breaking stories very late at night L.A. time...like that huge explosion that rocked some mining camp in TX about 6 months ago. They call her in suddenly, during their 'canned shows' they show late at night, and she has to always hit the ground running..and she nails it with smarter questions than I've seen Brokaw Rather and Walters ask. She amazes me and I'm sorry I can't think of her name...Oh! RAFFERTY, I think it is. She rocks. And gets very little mention, which bugs me.

skudrunner; yes, I prefer my presidents to know how many states there are in America, particularly if they did go to Harvard, huh?

By the way, did you know, you CAN see Russia from Alaska? Had dinner with friends from Homer, Alaska about 2 months ago; they've never been able to figure out what that kerfuffle was about, but it's an easy INSULT! And people hear and believe the media.

I saw Crossfire yesterday on CNN and Stephanie Cutter,my avatar,had Ben Carson on and was asking him questions that no one dare asked Obama when he actually was a candidate. She was trying to trip him up and redefining his answers. Let the games begin

CI, At FoX, the politicians are mostly interviewed like all other stations do...on a 'need to know information' basis when things come up. I haven't seen a politician's name on their list of contributors....maybe 1 or 2 but I can't think of any.MSNBC has Joe Scarborough, retired congressman, CNN has Newt on CrossFire......Honestly, I can't think of even an expolitician who's got a show at FOX, but I could be wrong; I'm sub'ing today and the kids are clamoring to talk to "Ms Z" :-)see y'all later.

I’m not sure what diversity means, and I sure as hell don’t understand why it’s important. If you hire someone to be a journalist, then that person should have some bona fides in journalism. Color, sex, race, religion, ethnicity, or sexual preference shouldn’t matter. By Barbarian, did they mean Moslem?

My personal view is that the word “diversity” is another code word for affirmative action. A law suit avoidance stratagem. Still, if what Sue Hanes suggests comes true, that Dash will appear on Fox News without any clothes, I’ll be a devoted fan as long as I don’t later learn that she follows the dark side, like Rachel Madcow.

Hiring probably has something to do with this:"Fox News' ratings took a hit in the key demo for the month of May.

The network drew 264,000 viewers ages 25-54 during primetime — the lowest it has had in over 12 years, since August 2001. Its entire primetime lineup — hosted by Greta Van Susteren, Bill O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity — hit 12-year lows in the demo. Still, Fox News maintained its cable news dominance over competing networks in both the demo and in total viewers."

From Huffingtonpost.

The Fox demographics are a growing concern and there is some truth to the joke that the average age of a Fox viewer is, dead.

No. She is not part barbarian, but Barbadian, i.e., from Barbados Island. Barbados was a British sugar plantation island, and the fields were worked with African slaves. An investigation of that bloodline would be interesting to say the least. Part British and part African? It sounds that way.

Ducky: Thomas Piketty's statistics have been shown to be phony, and probably fraudulent not only by the Financial Times, but by others. I have not read his reply, but I would like to get the entire study to make my own assessment. It sounds like a lot of fun digging into his data.

Ducky: "Time for folks to figure out that the reason the nation is so brain dead is more a matter of what is NOT reported than what is."

I agree with Ducky. In the not reported, or barely reported category are the Benghazi Coverup, the IRS attack on conservative groups, the Veterans Administration culpability in the deaths of veterans for non-treatment, promoting the flow of illegal aliens into the US over the Mexican border, etc.

Yes, Ducky, it is a shame. What's more shocking is the number of young people that understand ANYTHING about ANYTHING having to do with science, politics, economics, or just having plain common sense.

Every time I see the Jesse Watter's portion of the Bill O'Reilly show where he interviews clueless kids in their twenties, I am amazed that people like this can find their way home.

The Cutter/Carson interview is online and I thought he answered the questions asked very well. She was having a difficult time making coherent sentences and came off arrogant and condescending.

Of course being born in Mass she probably has little put off by a smart black man who came from a poor family in Detroit. Even the kerry swift boat loss was partially blamed on her arrogance. She fits right in with CNN and the Colonial elitists.

"During the John Kerry campaign she was criticized for having a surly and difficult personality."

@Bob --- Ducky: Thomas Piketty's statistics have been shown to be phony, and probably fraudulent not only by the Financial Times, but by others. I have not read his reply, but I would like to get the entire study to make my own assessment. It sounds like a lot of fun digging into his data.----There are several opinions.Doesn't appear to be sufficient to invalidate his basic thesis. But the main value here is the engaged discussion.

One things for sure. Absolutely for sure. You won't get a useful insight from Fox News.

Z - "Honestly, I can't think of even an expolitician who's got a show at FOX, but I could be wrong"

I wasn't speaking of occasional guests to comment on news of the day, , I was referring to those who actually had time-slotted shows or longer term sepcial coverage spots, such as Huckabee, Kasich, Palin, Scott Brown, Kucinich, Mark Sanford, Herman Cain, Allen West....I may have missed a couple.

CI, Huckabee is the only one who has a show on FOX and the others are very rarely on. You may have missed a couple but if any of the others have 10 minutes a month, I'd be very surprised; haven't seen most of them in a very long time.

Bob...I'd better change Barbarian to Barbadian! Thanks! OOPS

Lisa...The softballs to Obama are pretty much legendary now...but you're right; wait till they dig out the questions for Carson or ANY Republican. Yes, the games have begun.

Woman: I'm not sure I mind that FOX has such beauty AND brains... I must admit the YOUTH part bugs me :-) But they're mostly in their thirties and forties.And, let's face it, they're every bit as smart, at LEAST, as Crowley, extremely better looking!, and they're not water carriers for Obama; that's a plus! :-)

Sam, There's a guy named Chris, I think his last name's Hayes, who wears owl glasses on MSNBC: Check out how much he resembles Madcow, or she resembles him. Uncanny. I think they're the same person only his clothes are a little LESS manly and they put those glasses on him/her :-)

@Bob --- In the not reported, or barely reported category are the Benghazi Coverup, the IRS attack on conservative groups, the Veterans Administration culpability in the deaths of veterans for non-treatment, promoting the flow of illegal aliens into the US over the Mexican border, etc.

-------Benghazi has not been covered? Compared to what, the Iraq war?

It doesn't stop. There is just NO WAY to dialog with a conservative.They just live somewhere else. Just a statement of fact, not a judgement.

Ducky it was "Gotchya questions". It was more the way they were asked. While he was answering a question she rudely interrupted him to and gave her own interpertation of the answer before he even finished his answer.Like she asked something about how heWould handle the war and as he started to talk she interupted with "So do you think it was good thatWe got Osama bin Laden?It was ridiculous. It wasn't even a serious interview.

I thought Dr. Carson handled himself very well during the Cutter bushwhack.

I also think anyone can tell what was going on with Cutter and her co-conspirator. The leftist swine, in keeping with their innate racism, regard Dr. Carson as one of those uppity blacks, and a damned conservative to boot. Beyond the video, read some of the comments posted by liberals. Now tell me the left isn’t racist.

Ducky, he's anything but Herman Cain. It'll be really hard for your leftwingers to smear this guy. I'm not sure if he'll be my pick but this guy has character higher than Mt Everest and THAT is going to be very hard to beat by ANY leftie.

Ducky:"It doesn't stop. There is just NO WAY to dialog with a conservative.They just live somewhere else. Just a statement of fact, not a judgement."Then why are you here?And what firm data do you have to support that statement since all it would take is one example (and I know of many) to refute that.I heard such a civilized discourse on the radio this very morning.

lib girl, how did I know All Along that you were gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that, the problem ith you is your deafening ignorance, racism and violent behavior. Anyone know any FBI guys? They should pay libtard a visit. Seriously. we might be reading about him/her next right?

ED ...Somehow I missed Ducky's " There is just NO WAY to dialog with a conservative.They just live somewhere else. Just a statement of fact, not a judgement."!!Thanks for quoting him!

Ducky, how about using some TRUTH, some honestly, less of your ideological biases, quote from mainstream papers, not far left. stop insulting? It could help :-)And, trust me, it's no coincidence we feel at least as strongly about dialoguing with libs.

Liberalmann appears to be GAY and RACIST. WOW. What a scary creep....

Kid, did you hear that there's an openly gay Republican running for office in San Diego, CA and, last night, his office was broken into: They did what the Gore folks did to the new Bush White House; cut cords, smashed computers, poured water on keyboards, etc. QUITE a job.And, you know what? liberals will say "WE DIDN"T DO IT!" :-)Ya, an openly gay man is a HUGE threat to liberals whose whole premise is REPUBLICANS HATE GAYS!This guy is a fantastic candidate and WAY up in the polls; no wonder the left vandalized his offices. They can't converse, got to RUIN.

Lisa: Ben Carson has a VERY Very good chance of winning because he's unruffleable...don't you think? (not sure if that's a word of not, but you get the picture :-) Did you know he said he couldn't be trapped into anything because he never lies...that God doesn't honor liars? This guy is pretty an amazing communicator; no leftie's going to cow this guy.

CI: absolutely NOT.And I'll just bet it isn't by libs :-) Even though he's had tons of threats, etc. Must be from GOP straights...or CHRISTIANS, right? :-)

But, seriously...his campaign has every reason to believe it was done by the other candidates people. And no, I don't have their data.And, frankly, CI? Liberals don't need facts, I'm kind of thinking WE can surmise once in a while, too.

Kid....right!

Mustang; I took leave of my senses for a minute. Sorry :-)

Lisa...I think that's what the gay GOP'er in San Diego is also facing; as he said tonight on TV, it's hard for the Left to come to grips with gay Republicans because, after all, they run pretty much on nothing but hate....like "Republicans HATE gays,"! :-) (as IF).

Of course you can surmise...I haven't seen the news in the last few hours. It very could be leftists....but I wouldn't discount the industry that pumps out rhetoric claiming gays are nazi, demonic forces, destroying America, etc.

@Ducky: "It doesn't stop. There is just NO WAY to dialog with a conservative."

We have massacred a perfectly good noun, dialogue. I hate it when that happens.

So, since us conservatives won't dialogue, why don't the so-called big media outlets talk about the Benghazi coverup? It seems to me that conservatives are trying to dialogue too much, and instead should hire SEIU thugs with baseball bats to get the point across as the liberals are want to do.

@Bob - Would you expect anything less when the aforementioned noun was used in the baseless assertion as it was? Really Ducky - you had the opportunity to make a reasoned argument...and you left a steaming turd.

Ed: "And what firm data do you have to support that statement since all it would take is one example (and I know of many) to refute that."

Ever the logical person.

Thanks for the Fox News thing on Piketty. I would buy the book but have too much on my plate right now. However, it is usually silly to attack someone's arithmetic because before they publish, they will have someone go over all their figures. It is in their assumptions that they step in the Poo.

Piketty makes the erroneous assumption that after governments confiscate wealth from rich, the governments then will efficiently and magically solve all social problems with that money. Any fool knows that governments are, by nature, inefficient and out of tune with supply/demand relationships. They all "screw the pooch" when it comes to income re-distribution. They can't help it.

Everybody;If you can leave some of the ugly verbiage out, I'd really appreciate it.Most of you don't do it often and I know it's late and some of us are fired up over this subject and others, but please let's leave GeeeeZ the decent place it usually is.

There's all sorts of nouns that become verbs according to usage, but dialogue in my online dictionary showed the verb form to be distinctly North American.

Some are called, gerunds. I tried to forget all that stuff when I got out of high school. We started diagramming sentences in the fourth grade, and were still doing that stuff in high school. English teachers are relentless.

Silly...all of it IMHO...The United States of America is no more. Our borders are insecure, impossible to control ( without armed troops to halt the invasion)...open to terrorists and open again to 36,000 POS criminals who have been released by ICE and have just melted into our society...yet POS like Ducky call this a good thing?

They call this diversity? This is "good" for America? When the bottom feeders of the planet and those who wish to position themselves for another 911 style attack in this country are ready and able..because the "cic"...the totally incompetent, untrustworthy, lying POS that told our very best at West Point...we don't need you?

This is "leadership? I'd rather have armed citizens on out borders, protecting us than the ROE's that have been used to strangle our LEO's on the border.

10 years..or less..we will be a 3rd world shit hole...over run by criminal illegals...then when the pot runs dry...what do Ducky and these total asshole loons think will happen next?

Ducky...I know you can't defend yourself....know that all of us...will not either.

I wish to see you as a pork chop over a flaming pit as their special of the evening.

The democrat party were the stalwarts of slavery and segregation. Some of the biggest segregationists were democrats, george wallace, birch bayh are prime examples of the racism of the democratic party. Jim crow was a democrat movement and now they are on the attack on Carson and claim they are not racist.

"Freedom is never more than one generation away fromextinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must befought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day wewill spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children whatit was once like in the United States where men werefree." -- Ronald Reagan

remember

Andrew Breitbart...American Hero

Mac 'n GeeeZis my food blog...enjoy! Sorry I haven't added to it in a long while.

President Obama has done such a horrible job with the economy and foreign policy that now Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States :-)

important reminders:

We are surrounded by IDIOTS...Mr. Z

“Barack Obama's political genius is his ability to say things that will sound good to people who have not followed the issues in any detail —regardless of how obviously fraudulent what he says may be to those who have. Shameless effrontery can be a huge political asset, especially if uninformed voters outnumber those who are informed.” Thomas Sowell.........AMENTolerance is the last virtue of a dying society. (doesn't matter who wrote it, it's true and it's here)

The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.... Peter Brimelow

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie. ~George Deukmejian

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